History Recap / TintinTheCastafioreEmerald

* FowlMouthedParrot: The parrot the captain got as [[MyNewGiftIsLame a gift]] from the Castafiore learns to swear like the captain at the end.

** Bianca Castafiore comes to Marlinspike Hall to escape the press, but throughout the story is eager to accept various interview opportunities.
** Bianca Castafiore is absolutely horrified and has a fit when a tabloid publishes some pretty random looking picture of her and the parrot, but she doesn't care that the tabloids wrongly published that she and Haddock were going to marry. In her 'defence' the tabloid that published the parrot photo was one she explicitly refused to be featured in ever again after they did an unflattering piece on her.
** In the same scene, Bianca complains to Haddock that anybody can enter Marlinspike Hall without much trouble, while she invited herself there in the first place.

* BlandNameProduct: Bianca mentions her broken “Tristan Bior” necklace.

** Bianca Castafiore is absolutely horrified and has a fit when a tabloid publishes some pretty random looking picture of her and the parrot, but she doesn't care that the tabloids wrongly published that she and Haddock were going to marry.
*** In her 'defence' the tabloid that published the parrot photo was one she explicitly refused to be featured in ever again after they did an unflattering piece on her.

* FamousNamedForeigner: The pianist Igor Wagner seems to be named after Music/IgorStravinsky and Music/RichardWagner.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Bianca Castafiore, as usual in the series, has a crush on Captain Haddock, while the later doesn't feel the same in return and only is completely annoyed by her. In this book Castafiore even takes it up a notch more than usual by inviting herself to stay in Haddock's castle, much to Haddock's chagrin.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Tintin looks directly at the readers on the issue cover and advises them to be quiet.

* ShoutOut: Bianca Castafiore mentions in passing that the gossip press has linked her romantically to the [[ComicBook/JoZetteAndJocko Maharajah of Gopal]] in the past.

* MindYourStep: A broken stair in Marlinspike Hall puts Captain Haddock in a wheelchair after he forgets about it. Several other characters trip on the same spot throughout the album. At the end of the story, when Haddock is out of the wheelchair and the stair is freshly repaired, he forgets about it again, steps on the still setting marble, and sends himself flying, undoing the repair in the process.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Tintin looks directly at the readers on the album cover and advises them to be quiet.

* SliceOfLife: Herge described the writing of this story as "trying to see if he can maintain tension in a plot where nothing actually happens."

!!Tropes

* [[ChekhovsGun/ComicBooks Chekhov's Gun]]: Tintin and Captain Haddock spot a magpie in the front yard of Marlinspike very early on in the book. Later in the story, Bianca Castafiore's titular emerald is stolen. It turns out the thief is the magpie.

* ThievingMagpie: Tintin has a EurekaMoment when he hears that Castafiore, still missing her emerald, will be performing in ''La Gazza Ladra'' (Thieving Magpie). In said opera by Rossini, the charges of theft against a servant girl are resolved when they discover a magpie was the actual culprit. Sure enough, Tintin finds the emerald in a magpie's nest. Inverted when the magpie itself accuses Tintin to be a "THIEF!", when Tintin takes the emerald back from the magpie.

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* ShaggyDogStory: The jewel thief was a magpie. Every single prior clue and lead-in was a RedHerring.

* ThievingMagpie: Tintin has a EurekaMoment when he hears that Castafiore, still missing her emerald, will be performing in ''La Gazza Ladra'' (Thieving Magpie). In said opera by Rossini, the charges of theft against a servant girl are resolved when they discover a magpie was the actual culprit. Sure enough, Tintin finds the emerald in a magpie's nest.

* BlandNameProduct: Bianca mentions that her broken necklace was from “Tristan Bior”

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Much of the calamity that happens to Haddock happened to Creator/{{Herge}} too. One of his stairs was broken and the repair man always promised he would come by, but it just never happened. Hergé was so irritated by this that he wrote the situation in the story, even gave the repair man the same name: ''Boullu''. A feature about himself in a glossy magazine also bore about the same kind of loose connection to reality as the one in ''Paris-Flash'' about Biance Castafiore and the Captain. And the incident with the drunk fanfare band also happened to him in real life.

* BunglingInventor: Professor Calculus creates a filter that can turn monochrome television signals into colour television, despite Haddock trying to tell him that ItsBeenDone. It doesn't work very well.